Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τεκταίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκταίνομαι

Structure: τεκταίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: [0] Dep.

Sense

  1. to make, work, frame, to do joiners' work
  2. to devise, plan, contrive, they kept me

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • διεστραμμένῃ καρδίᾳ τεκταίνεται κακά, ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ταραχὰσ συνίστησι πόλει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 6:18)
  • χείλεσι πάντα ἐπινεύει ἀποκλαιόμενοσ ἐχθρόσ, ἐν δὲ τῇ καρδίᾳ τεκταίνεται δόλουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 26:25)
  • ἢ οὐκ ἐννοεῖσ ὅτι ὁ μὲν γεωργὸσ γεωργεῖ οὐ τοῦ γεωργεῖν ἕνεκα καὶ ὁ τέκτων τεκταίνεται οὐχὶ τοῦ τεκταίνεσθαι ἕνεκα, ὁ δὲ παράσιτοσ οὐχ ἕτερον μέν τι διώκει, ἀλλὰ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ ἔργον μὲν ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ καὶ οὗ ἕνεκα γίγνεται; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 14:5)
  • ἕτεροσ δὲ χαλκεύει τισ, ὁ δὲ τεκταίνεται· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 3:53)
  • ἡ δὲ κακία τῶν κολαστηρίων ἐφ’ ἑαυτὴν ἕκαστον ἐξ αὑτῆσ τεκταίνεται, δεινοῦ τισ οὖσα βίου δημιουργὸσ οἴκτουσ σὺν αἰσχύνῃ φόβουσ τε πολλοὺσ καὶ πάθη χαλεπὰ καὶ μεταμελείασ καὶ ταραχὰσ ἀπαύστουσ ἔχοντοσ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 9 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. to devise

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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